MPs from across the NSW political spectrum have flagged support for new laws that would wipe clean the criminal records of men convicted on outdated anti-homosexual laws.

But the government has warned that rushing through new laws would risk inadvertently clearing paedophiles' names.

The Victorian premier, Denis Napthine, on Sunday announced that men prosecuted for having gay sex under historic laws could apply to have their convictions erased under laws before that state's parliament this year.

Victoria decriminalised homosexuality in 1981, and NSW did so three years later.

A spokeswoman for the NSW attorney-general, Greg Smith, said the government would consider laws of its own, and will consult with groups including NSW Police and legal bodies.

"The law covered consensual and non-consensual sexual acts and it is important to ensure any changes do not inadvertently clear paedophiles and other sexual predators who were rightly convicted for criminal behaviour against male victims," the spokeswoman said.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/13/anti-gay-convictions-could-be-wiped-clean-in-nsw-too

Julie Boyd writes an open letter to Cory Bernardi and Paul Sheehan, regarding their recent harsh and unfair public judgements upon single mothers.

Dear Cory Bernardi and Paul Sheehan,

Both of you have seen fit to pass public judgement on single mothers as a genus over the past few weeks. As a single mum I’d like to explain how it’s blokes like you who caused us to be single in the first place.

My own, very much loved kids were born in wedlock. That would have pleased you, I imagine.

When my daughter was one year old, my husband hit me. He was drunk and, I guess, I should be grateful it wasn’t a king hit!

Now, according to you I should have stayed and put up with it. I didn’t. I left, taking two toddlers with me to the safe haven of a friend’s house.

At the time I was still on leave without pay from my job in education. I had no superannuation, and in the ‘property settlement’, as they were back then, my ex’s superannuation was considered his and untouchable. I saw none of it. I also received no child support.

Many of my peers who went through the same experience are now finding themselves older, poorer and unemployable, although they have buckets of experience and expertise.

read more: http://www.independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/open-letter-to-cory-bernardi-and-paul-sheehan-from-a-single-mother,6065

It seems Scott Morrison has kidnapped three children on the high seas and handed them to the same junta who killed two of their uncles, writes Bob Ellis.

It looks like Scott Morrison has kidnapped on the high seas three children, who were on their way to New Zealand, and delivered them into the hands of a junta who had killed two of their uncles and imprisoned a third — or so it is alleged by Jason Koutsoukis in a two-page article in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday.

These acts of piracy, kidnap and child abuse are known — but other children may have similarly suffered, and may already be dead, like Morrison’s other victims Reza Berati and the two young men who burned themselves to death in fear of what he might do to them.

What he has done, in this case, is what the Americans call ‘rendition’ of children and at least one woman who have done no harm to Australia, and weren’t even coming here, back to a nation so infamous that Canada wouldn’t send its representatives to a conference it was chairing in protest against its ‘human rights abuses’ — that is, the torture and killing thousands of its citizens in the wake of a vicious civil war.

Scott Morrison, who will be speaking in tongues today and seems unable to join the dots from some of the violent, illegal acts against children and women he has ordered, is called this act of what may become assisted murder an ‘on-water matter’ he may not speak of while the High Court is deliberating it — a High Court that would if he were, say, a pirate, without a ministerial position and 150 spin-doctors, put him in gaol.

read more: http://www.independentaustralia.net/australia/australia-display/sgot-moralsnone-delivers-children-to-their-familys-murderers,6666

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As the great defender of tight-arsed morals, WHERE IS YOUR OUTRAGE,  Mr Cory Bernardi? Where is it? Where is it when faced by these ugly nasty acts from the government you are part of? And please don't hide behind "the operational matters" crap-fudge.... And should you claim that you "don't know", then it is your Christian duty to know.